Resources
External Collections
A List of Area Archives & Special Collections
This extensive list of other local museums, organizations and sites may be of interest to you as you are researching Palm Springs, the Coachella Valley and California. This list has been compiled by Library staff.
- Agua Caliente Cultural Museum
- Bighorn Institute
- Cabot's Pueblo Museum
- California Digital Library
- California Historic Route 66 Association
- California Missions Resource Center
- California Newspaper Project
- California State Archives
- Calisphere
- City of Palm Springs History
- Children's Discovery Museum of the Desert
- Coachella Valley History Museum
- Coachella Valley Wild Bird Center
- Desert Magazine Archives
- The Elrod House (Lautner)
- Friends of the California Archives
- Historical Society of Palm Desert
- J Paul Getty Museum
- Graceland West in Palm Springs
- La Quinta Historical Society
- The Living Desert
- Mount San Jacinto State Park
- ONE National Gay & Lesbian Archives
- Online Archive of California
- Palm Springs Air Museum
- Palm Springs Art Museum
- Palm Springs Elvis Honeymoon Hideaway
- Palm Springs Bureau of Tourism
- Palm Springs Historical Society
- Palm Springs Indian Canyons
- Palm Springs Tramway History
- PS ModCom
- Rancho Mirage Historic Preservation Commission
- Salton Sea
- Santa Rosa and San Jacinto Mountains National Monument
- Sunnylands
- Thousand Palms Oasis Preserve
- 29 Palms Historical Society
- UCLA Digital Collections
- UC Riverside Collections
- UC San Diego Online Digital Collections
- USC Digital Library
- The Villager from Palm Springs Life Magazine
Additional Archives & Special Collections
This list covers additional archives and special collections. This list has been compiled by Library staff.
- African American Heritage (From National Archives—US)
- Biblioteca Digital Hispánica (National Library of Spain)
- Book of Kells (From Trinity College Dublin)
- The British Library (National Library—UK)
- Digital Public Library of America
- Hathi Trust
- Folger Shakespeare Library Online Exhibitions
- Julia Child's Kitchen
- Gallica (BNF: The National Library of France)
- Library and Archival Exhibitions on the Web (From Smithsonian)
- Library of Congress
- Library of Congress Digital Collections
- Museum of Early Southern Decorative Arts
- National Archives (UK)
- National Archives (US)
- National Park Service
- New York Public Library Online Exhibitions
- Smithsonian Latino Center